CHOICES
If you listen to what's said, if you listen to all the chat
some say this and some say that
But when you're hearing all the voices
it still comes down to making choices
Some people try to decide for you
what's good or bad and what's true
Just listen to what they say
then make a choice on what to keep and what to throw away
When someone gets in your face, nose to nose and tries to tell you how it's gonna go
you have a choice to make, you can say yes or you can say no
You can choose to stand toe to toe
you can choose to walk away or if punches you should throw
Just remember what you choose to say
sometimes for your choice you have to pay
Yes you get to make the choice of the way it will be
just remember in life choices aren't free
If you choose to tell the boss what you do and don't like
he might choose to tell you to take a hike
If you choose to tell your lover, you've found someone else to meet
you may come home and find she chose to throw all you stuff in the street
You may choose to love someone for the rest of you life
you may choose to ask her to be your wife
And if she chooses and feels the same thing
You might choose to buy her a ring
You may choose for your bill not to pay
only to find out the collection man chooses not play
You may choose to take what you want even if you have to kill
but then you may find out that sword has a double edge and your blood it will spill
You may choose to travel down a gravel road so long
at the fork in the road you may choose the road that leads to wrong
You may choose not to worship and prey
but then you'll have to answer for that on judgment day
We don't choose when out life begins
and most of us don't choose when it will end
From the beginning no matter what you hear from the voices
'till the day it ends, it's all about choices
STANLEY HENDRIX
9/11/08